Personal Injury and Wrongful Death

An accident can have a difficult effect on you and your family’s emotional, physical and financial situation. You probably have questions about your injury claim and what rights you have. Hopefully, you are recovering from your injuries.

When you are involved in an accident through the negligence of some other party, you are entitled to assert a claim to pursue certain damages. The negligence of another party is where they have failed to use the reasonable care of a person under those circumstances. Some examples of course are running a stop sign, running a red light, or anything when they violate traffic laws and crash into you or somehow cause a collision.

Remember, having your personal injury claims skillfully handled by a lawyer is very important for a strong recovery. An injured person and his or her family are typically subject to extraordinary stress and expenses. There are a myriad of administrative details to cope with in relation to the injury, medical expenses, liability, and compensation. These injuries may also involve workers’ compensation and/or disability claims.

At Wright, Worley, Pope, Ekster & Moss, PLLC, our lawyers will help you deal with all of these issues. As necessary, on your behalf, we may also consult experienced medical economists and life care planners who provide detailed, accurate cost-data analyses of the injuries of our clients. We take into account costs associated with future surgery, in-home nursing care, physical therapy, medical equipment, lost wages, and pain and suffering. We also work with medical experts across a wide variety of specialties in order to establish the scope and nature of our clients’ injuries. You also need to know all of the insurance coverages available to you. We will help you make this analysis.

We would welcome the opportunity to speak with you and assist you in this stressful time. If you have any question about your rights, responsibilities, insurance coverage, liability or court proceedings following an accident, please contact Wright, Worley, Pope, Ekster & Moss, PLLC to schedule an initial consultation at a mutually convenient time and place.

Cases Seeking Damages

In North Carolina, cases seeking damages under $25,000.00 are filed in District Court. They are required to undergo arbitration. This is a mini one hour hearing that occurs in front of a certified arbitrator, who is a lawyer of the local bar. The arbitrator then makes a written decision of an award in favor of one of the parties, and the same can either become binding, can be appealed by either party, or can be used for further negotiations.

Cases seeking damages over $25,000.00 are filed in Superior Court. These cases are required to undergo mandatory mediation. Mediation is when you attend with your lawyer and the insurance company’s lawyer is usually there with a representative of the insurance company. The named defendant will usually not be there. The mediator attempts to bring the parties to a number that both parties can live with to resolve the claim.

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